Dark Long Red

S. melongena. Good flavor, sweet and hearty. Seedy. Fruit are uniformly light purple, slightly curved and elongated. Fruit measure 5-9" long, 1.4-2" wide, and weigh 2.5-5.7oz. Fruit born in clusters of 1-3. Golden when seed mature. Purple flowers. Moderately branched plants have purple and green stems. Plants measure 1.6-2.4' tall. Green leaves have dark violet petioles and veins. No lodging. Mid season maturity. Moderately productive when grown at Heritage Farm in 2018. Since 1989, this variety has been popular in the Yearbook and Exchange community. Donaline Rogers (CA RO D2) of Gasquet, California donated seeds to SSE in 2015. She originally purchased the variety from Redwood City Seed Company in 1997, who sourced its seed stock from Malaysia. Since moving to California, Donaline has noticed that the eggplant doesn’t perform as well in drought conditions. She likes to flour and fry the eggplant in butter or olive oil. SSE Accession # 132982